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NarcoticNoble

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Registered: 2017-09-06

Posts: 35

Pulseaudio: Line in crackling sound?

Okay so I normally pass the audio from my PS4 into the back of my PC so I can redirect all the audio to my earphones so I can hear the console and my PC.

I bought a new PC and I think the motherboard is having incompatibilties with pulseaudio.

Everything works absolutely fine but when I redirect the audio with:

pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1

It works but I get this horrible crackling noise.

I have followed 2.5, 2.6, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pu … leshooting

Nothing is working I still get the crackling sound, I have tired changing cables and when the cable is unplugged the crackling sound still persists.

Has anyone ever had the same issues? Can I migrate to jack and ditch pulseaudio even as a Gnome user?

Last edited by NarcoticNoble (2017-11-04 16:07:09)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Pulseaudio: Line in crackling sound?

did you try increasing the latency_msec value?
Also try at least 3.6 and 3.7 in pulseaudio troubleshooting wiki page.

There's no reason why you couldn't use jack server, but I hope you understand it's not supposed to be used as general purpose audio server, but for real audio work. It's very different from, and can't replace pulseaudio in any way.

NarcoticNoble

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Registered: 2017-09-06

Posts: 35

Re: Pulseaudio: Line in crackling sound?

Ooo I didn't think of that, I'll try when I get home and get back to you

NarcoticNoble

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Registered: 2017-09-06

Posts: 35

Re: Pulseaudio: Line in crackling sound?

I tried changing the latency and doing 3.6 and 3..7 with no luck, the only thing that seems to change the quality of the audio is the:

default-fragments = 75
default-fragment-size-msec = 4

in the file

 /etc/pulse/daemon.conf 

I don't know what to do...

NarcoticNoble

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Registered: 2017-09-06

Posts: 35

Re: Pulseaudio: Line in crackling sound?

Also worth mentioning when I run

 pactl list sinks 

the

 device.buffering.buffer_size = "X" 

 device.buffering.fragment_size = "Y" 

seems to change when I change the default-fragments and default-fragment-size-msec in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf. In which case how does 3.4 help?

corruption2013

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Registered: 2013-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: Pulseaudio: Line in crackling sound?

Did you solve this issue? I have exactly the same problem right now